Obama tells Boehner: Sorry, we’re still not negotiating a debt limit hostage crisis.
Live Video feed here from Dock Yard shooting press conference.
Here’s a quick update on the still-unfolding mass shooting at the DC Navy Yard which began at around 8:30 this morning. Police say that at least 10 people were shot by the assailant. We’ve heard higher numbers but that seems to be the only clearly sourced number. Meanwhile, there have been numerous reports about numbers of dead. But the only report that seems solid is the Navy’s statement about “reports of fatalities” – presumably multiple deaths, but precise number unclear. [Late Update: The LAT is now quoting a Navy spokesman who says the Navy believes there are at least four dead in today’s shooting.]
Finally all reports suggest the suspect – about whom very little is known – is barricaded or trapped somewhere inside the facility. See more live feed coverage here.
The Navy is confirming a shooting at the Navy Yard in DC. Latest reports are that it is an ongoing shooting. You can track developments at TPMLiveWire.
For those not familiar with DC, Washington Navy Yard is in southeast Washington, roughly a mile from the Capitol building. Navy Yard is near the relatively new Nationals Park, which is the centerpiece of the redevelopment in that area: lots of new office and apartment high rises. It is the oldest military installation in U.S. and remains an active Navy facility. It’s relatively open to the public, with the National Museum of the U.S. Navy and a decommissioned destroyer-turned-museum both housed there.
A sad, weird coda to our 9/11 commemoration discussion. After a year of exploitation by congressional Republicans, State Department staffers who wanted to commemorate the one year anniversary of the attack that killed Amb. Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya were forced to hold their own unofficial memorial in the State Department lobby. We heard about it from a State Department staffer who worked with Stevens in Libya who was understandably disappointed that State declined to hold any memorial or even send anyone to the informal gathering. State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach pointed to the degree of politicization of the event as one reason why no official event was held.
The big news from yesterday, Larry Summers pulls his name from consideration for Fed Chair.
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As Sahil Kapur reports, GOP now in the process of being disemboweled by anti-Obamacare monster they worked so hard to create.
After Dems float a way to bring up Sen. Vitter’s prostitution history, he flips and demands a bribery probe into Reid and Boxer. Because something.